{"id":251065,"date":"2024-05-16T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-enzyme-is-responsible-for-life-on-earth-its-a-hot-mess\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:05:07","slug":"this-enzyme-is-responsible-for-life-on-earth-its-a-hot-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-enzyme-is-responsible-for-life-on-earth-its-a-hot-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"This enzyme is responsible for life on Earth. It\u2019s a hot mess."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-partner-content\">\n        <em data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Proof of Concept\u00a0is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment\u2019s most unexpected research.\u00a0<\/em>\n    <\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-default-font-family\">Pretty much all life on Earth \u2013 plants, animals, humans \u2013 in large part, owe their entire existence to one microscopic protein. It\u2019s called ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase\/oxygenase, better known as RuBisCO, and it\u2019s an enzyme: a biological machine that helps turn CO2 into energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Of the millions of enzymes on earth, RuBisCO might be the most important. It\u2019s essential to photosynthesis, and without it, plants would be unable to grow. Without RuBisCO, nearly all life on Earth would starve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">But even though it\u2019s everywhere, and has been around for billions of years, RuBisCO kind of sucks at its job. And it\u2019s getting worse as the world gets hotter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Today, a global team of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/video\/plant-enzyme-rubsico-experiment-heat-photosynthesis\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof of Concept\u00a0is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment\u2019s most unexpected research.\u00a0 Pretty much all life on Earth \u2013 plants, animals, humans \u2013 in large part, owe their entire existence to one microscopic protein. It\u2019s called ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase\/oxygenase, better known as RuBisCO, and it\u2019s an enzyme: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":251066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This enzyme is responsible for life on Earth. 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